Plowsie's Naked-y-Fying Project

Originally Posted by plowsie

Right, so Wednesday night I got back from work at 12 ish and there was a metal on metal noise.

"*****n ell, what the eck is that"

Rode it in Thrusday, took it to Rad in town, rings me up today, pads needed changing. TFFT.

So tonight will be trying to stick me bars on and new headlight Will take a piccy of the pads tonight FTR and hopefully have the bars done tonight Gonna have to drop the forks through by roughly 10-15mm I think though So may look into different risers instead of that, what will 10-15mm do to the thing?

Cheers for input people...

Dropping the bars will make it turn in slower. EDIT: That was a bad explanation in anyone's book. I meant to say dropping the forks not the bars. As in moving them further down the yokes. You can counter this by counter steering harder. Basically means you have to ride it a bit harder to make it go round the corner like it did before. You could consider raising the rear which in essence will sharpen the steering again. Although it really isn't all quite as simple as that as you are changing the geometry of the bike so is likely to cause other 'side effects'. With the limited suspension that your bike has, I wouldn't have thought it would make a huge amount of difference though.

Why do you have to drop the forks through the yokes anyway

Tops of the forks up to the adjustment screws are roughly 45mm above the yokes(roughly) and the bar risers/clamps are a lot shorter than that. Will take a pic to show that too. Guessing it will be a two man job to do.

Thanks Si, thought it would affect steering. Thinking it may be a good thing to learn a bit more on counter steering, be able to feel that I'm doing it etc.

just been reading your tread, and thinking......you NUTTER got to see it!

are you around on sunday? might ride over yours and view the project !

easy dude... u got that fairing n bars on yet?? i wanna c it!!

Originally Posted by bad-sv650

just been reading your tread, and thinking......you NUTTER got to see it!

are you around on sunday? might ride over yours and view the project !

have you missed the rideout thread on Sunday boyo?

Ady, could do with a hand to do those bits, got that headlight on, looks a lot better, could do with a bulb still lol.

Just to show those that were interested, the probs with the top of the forks...

So what she looks like for now...



Next to a bit of class...

looks good............ the @rse needs to loose some weight next (IMO)

Yep, I am bidding on an R6 tail atm, if i don't win it, I'll be looking out for a 2nd gen SV rear end.

Not bad mate. will look sorted with a new rear end and tail tidy me thinks.